PHILADELPHIA – In the Atlantic Division, there are no winners. Well, one – if you count a team that came into Friday night only one game over .500.

That team would be the division-leading Toronto Raptors, who are a playoff team in a watered-down Eastern Conference and rule the roost in the woebegone Atlantic. So, yes, the 76ers had a chance to assemble their first winning streak in three weeks.

That plan went asunder in the fourth quarter.

DeMar DeRozan christened the period with two step-back buckets, as the Raptors poured it on late to cast off the Sixers, 104-95, at Wells Fargo Center.

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DeRozan, who at one stretch against the Sixers had misfired on nine consecutive looks, shot confidently in the fourth quarter. His two early buckets, including a 3-pointer off a turnover at the Sixers end, helped Toronto (22-20) establish a double-digit lead and win for the third time in six games.

Even on a fourth-quarter possession on which Toronto missed a pair of shots, the Raptors grabbed two offensive rebounds to extend their trip down that end of the floor.

DeRozan led all scorers with 34 points on 10-for-22 shooting. Not incredible numbers, but certainly worth mentioning when considering that he didn’t make a bucket between the 9:28 mark of the first quarter and the 8:09 mark of the third, missing nine shots in between. Villanova product Kyle Lowry logged a triple-double of 18 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds for Toronto, which made seven of its first 11 shots of the fourth.

The Sixers (14-29), who vanquished a double-digit lead only minutes into the game, couldn’t hold on.

Michael Carter-Williams scored a team-best 20 points, while Hollis Thompson had 15 off the bench. Spencer Hawes finished with a double-double of 14 points and 12 rebounds.

One thing’s for sure: Toronto didn’t leave its hot shooters at customs.

The Raptors scored 15 of the game’s first 17 points, prompting a timeout from the Sixers, who had to do something to stem the tide. Carter-Williams broke the cycle with a midrange jumper, which triggered a 10-2 run for the Sixers.

Chipping away, the Sixers turned their sizable swing into a 17-3 spurt, capped by Elliot Williams’ swipe of a Toronto inbound pass off the baseline and then a subsequent layup. That put the Sixers in front, 22-20, with three minutes left in the first quarter.

The Sixers carried a miniscule lead, 28-27, into the second quarter, and they couldn’t grow that advantage prior to halftime. The two sides traded the lead seven times and shared it seven more in a first half that neither team looked interested in claiming.

Out of the gate in the third, it was much of the same.

Along the way, Turner and Carter-Williams shared a nifty give-and-go in transition. Turner went behind his back with the initial pass to Carter-Williams, who underhanded it back to Turner for a right-handed layup, to make it a 61-59 Sixers lead.